TEL AVIV – The UN General Assembly adopted six resolutions against Israel in a single day on Tuesday, the NGO UN Watch reported, including a resolution calling for the return of the Golan Heights – together with its current inhabitants –to Syria. No resolutions
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has encouraged Russia and the United States to work together to fight jihadist violence, saying he intends to present a comprehensive plan to combat terrorism by early 2016.
The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, is going on the offensive in a bid to secure cross-party support for airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria. He will meet with the French President to discuss military tactics, before laying out a
The Islamic State is engaging in an enormous conspiracy to improve European border security, claims the head of the United Nations (UN) refugee agency, who has claimed that the fake Syrian passport found at one of the Paris attacks scenes
JERUSALEM – In a bid to curb an ongoing wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks against Israeli citizens, Israeli security forces have used excessive force and may have carried out summary executions, UN experts claimed on Monday. “Cases of
Poland should give children wider access to abortions, fight against “gender stereotypes” and imprison homophobes, a United Nations (UN) document has demanded. The document, which was produced by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, has provoked anger
Contents: France launches ‘massive attack’ on ISIS – 20 bombs; Beirut wonders why their terror bombing is less important than Paris’s
More than 800,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe this year, the UN said Friday, warning the Greek island of Lesbos especially was overstretched, with thousands, including young children, forced to sleep outside. Since January, 806,000 people
Former U.S. Army Master Sergeant John Hamen, abducted by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on October 20, has died in captivity. The exact circumstances of his death have not yet been disclosed.
The claim by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that eating certain processed meats and sausages could cause cancer is being challenged by a Northern Ireland businessman. He is ready to sue the UN-affiliated agency for damages after a recent WHO report
The Russian government provided the United Nations with an 18-month plan to end the Syrian civil war. Syrian opposition groups resist the plan, as it makes no mention of a transition process for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that, before talks on a cease-fire in Syria can move forward, Western powers must agree to identify the “terrorist” groups within the Syrian opposition.
Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and James Kilgore—three communist revolutionaries who were part of domestic terror groups and who all spent years on the run from the law—approved as a man called for “citizen’s tribunals” against the National Rifle Association to be held at the United Nations.
A report released this month on “The Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran” reveals that Iranians are worse off under “moderate” President Hassan Rouhani than his more conservative predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and that, based on their current trajectory, they are expected to exceed well over 1,000 executions by year’s end.
The United Nations does not view Spain’s separatist-ruled Catalonia region as having the right to self-determination, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in an interview published Saturday. “Spain is an independent and sovereign country that includes the Catalan region,” Ban told
Franklin Nieves, the prosecutor responsible for securing a conviction and 13-year prison sentence for Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, has defected to the United States and confessed that the evidence he brought to the trial was “100% false.”
There is a “looming refugee crisis” in the Americas as women and children from Central America and Mexico say they are fleeing regional violence, the United Nations Refugee Agency cautioned Wednesday.
JERUSALEM—Ordinary Israelis are furious about the Obama administration’s accusing Israel of committing acts of terrorism, drawing moral equivalency between the Jewish State and the terrorists who seek Israel’s destruction.
The United States, along with France, Britain, and Germany, have asked the U.N. Security Council to investigate Iran’s recent violation of a ballistic-missile test ban and take “appropriate action.”
As the wave of Palestinian knife attacks continues, and the Palestinians follow up on burning down the tomb of Joseph by lobbing firebombs near the tomb of Rachel, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has passed an Arab-drafted resolution condemning Israel.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon announced this week that he plans on meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas.
First Lady Michelle Obama is out with her first Spotify playlist, featuring female artists in celebration of the “International Day of the Girl.” The songs feature some questionable lyrics.
All news channels are predicting that Justin Trudeau will become the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada and form a majority government. The Liberals are projected to win at least 191 seats as of this writing, exceeding the minimum 170-seat threshold for a majority government.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled this week to hold meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
BONN, Germany – As UN diplomats convened in Bonn Monday, developing nations were balking at the latest draft of a global climate agreement to be inked in Paris in December, negotiators and experts said. The five-day session is the last
